Ivan Locke
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Ivan Locke is the central character of the 2013 British drama film "Locke," a construction manager whose life unravels over the course of a single car journey depicted entirely through his phone conversations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ivan Locke canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11236783 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ivan Locke Context triple: [Locke, characterIn, Ivan Locke]
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A.
Ivan Dixon
Ivan Dixon is an Australian animator and director known for his distinctive, often socially conscious animated music videos and short films.
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B.
Ivan Dixon
Ivan Dixon was an American actor, director, and producer best known for his role as Sergeant James "Kinch" Kinchloe on the television series "Hogan's Heroes."
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C.
Ivan Moffat
Ivan Moffat was a British-born screenwriter and producer best known for co-writing classic Hollywood films such as "Giant" and contributing to numerous notable projects in mid-20th-century cinema.
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D.
Jono Lancaster
Jono Lancaster is a British motivational speaker and advocate known for raising awareness about Treacher Collins syndrome and promoting acceptance of facial differences.
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E.
Ian Mackley
Ian Mackley is the husband of British comedian and television personality Julian Clary.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ivan Locke Target entity description: Ivan Locke is the central character of the 2013 British drama film "Locke," a construction manager whose life unravels over the course of a single car journey depicted entirely through his phone conversations.
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A.
Ivan Dixon
Ivan Dixon is an Australian animator and director known for his distinctive, often socially conscious animated music videos and short films.
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B.
Ivan Dixon
Ivan Dixon was an American actor, director, and producer best known for his role as Sergeant James "Kinch" Kinchloe on the television series "Hogan's Heroes."
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C.
Ivan Moffat
Ivan Moffat was a British-born screenwriter and producer best known for co-writing classic Hollywood films such as "Giant" and contributing to numerous notable projects in mid-20th-century cinema.
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D.
Jono Lancaster
Jono Lancaster is a British motivational speaker and advocate known for raising awareness about Treacher Collins syndrome and promoting acceptance of facial differences.
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E.
Ian Mackley
Ian Mackley is the husband of British comedian and television personality Julian Clary.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Locke ⓘ |
| centralConflict | balancing professional duty and personal responsibility ⓘ |
| communicatesVia | mobile phone ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy | Steven Knight ⓘ |
| employer | construction company overseeing a major concrete pour ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYearContext | 2013 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Eddie Locke
ⓘ
Sean Locke ⓘ |
| hasFirstName | Ivan ⓘ |
| hasLastName | Locke ⓘ |
| hasLover | Bethan ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Katrina Locke ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| narrativeFocusOf | Locke ⓘ |
| nationalityInStory | British ⓘ |
| occupation | construction manager ⓘ |
| parentOf | unborn child with Bethan ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Tom Hardy ⓘ |
| primaryModeOfAppearance | telephone conversations ⓘ |
| responsibleFor | large concrete pour for a skyscraper project ⓘ |
| settingOfKeyEvents | car journey from Birmingham to London ⓘ |
| themeEmbodied |
consequences of past actions
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family breakdown ⓘ responsibility ⓘ |
| travelsFrom | Birmingham ⓘ |
| travelsTo |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
| vehicleDriven | BMW ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Ivan Locke Description of subject: Ivan Locke is the central character of the 2013 British drama film "Locke," a construction manager whose life unravels over the course of a single car journey depicted entirely through his phone conversations.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.